Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Mission

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Räjgeetä
The Guru has noted that the pupil earnestly desires to proceed on the path of liberation. When a Guru gets such a pupil, he is pleased and is willing to teach him. The truly knowledgeable ones are actually looking for the right pupils to whom they can pass on their knowledge. The fountain of knowledge spontaneously starts flowing towards the deserving pupils. The Guru is therefore ready to show the right path to this pupil. That path has been described as under in the Letter of Six Fundamentals (Appendix-II).
“There are means for attaining liberation. If the bondage of Karma continues to take place, its cessation would never be possible. But there are obvious means, such as knowledge, conviction, spiritually oriented life, detachment, devotion, etc., which are the opposites of that bondage. By the intensity of those means the bondage of Karma becomes slack, is calmed down, and is destroyed. As such, knowledge, conviction, restraint, etc. are the means of liberation.”
For gaining liberation one should avoid whatever can cause the bondage. The first step is to avoid ignorance. All living beings instinctively tend to identify themselves with their bodies. The human beings are endowed with discernment (Vivek); by exercising it one can make out what is right and what is wrong. He thus makes out that the embodiment and all the surrounding aspects are temporary, while the soul stays forever. Such making out is termed here as right knowledge.
That may, however, not enable him to undertake the right activity, because he would be lacking the conviction. He therefore needs to acquire firm faith about the true nature of soul. That is called right perception. He then realizes that defiling instincts are unbecoming to him. For overcoming them he tries to restrain them, develops
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